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If people were willing to work through the issues with nuclear power, running a bunch of nuclear plants to power the scrubbers would be semi-reasonable.

• epistasis 5y ago
  It's far more reasonable to use solar than nuclear for this, solar has leapfrogged nuclear now. The carbon capture startup founder of Carbon Engineering talks about how he got this wrong, and how they switched their plans from using nuclear to solar. Here's a talk from two years ago on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYopOt9siLg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYopOt9siLg Note that many disagree with his optimism on the carbon capture side of things, but the solar is generally accepted by technologists.
  • indymike 5y ago
    What is a technologist?
    • epistasis 5y ago
      I'm using it to mean somebody who studies the technologies in the field. It would include both analysts and those who are actively performing research in industry and academia.